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[Misc] Strangest thing you've had nicked...



vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
28,370
Somebody unscrewed the lens cover on my Suzuki TS 185 and stole the stop/tail light bulb in 1980. Bulbs were cheap as chips at the time.
 






bhafc99

Well-known member
Oct 14, 2003
7,543
Dubai
Had my car nicked once. Police found it a few days later. The thieves had gone though the 20-odd CDs I had in the glove box, and cherry picked about half of them. Was actually quite funny to have my musical tastes assessed like that.

Most surprising was a Laser sailing dinghy from the sailing club at Queen Mary reservoir, just west of London. It was up on a cradle, and removing it must have involved coming prepared with a car trailer and all. Genuine WTF moment when I realised it had gone.
 


Berty23

Well-known member
Jun 26, 2012
3,887
I went to Antigua for the cricket World Cup in 2007. Second day our villa got ransacked. Others lost their phones and some money.

From me they took a shoulder bag full of sweets and junk food my now wife had packed for me to take away and my England cricket shirt with berty 23 on the back.
 


maffew

Well-known member
Dec 10, 2003
9,206
Worcester England
A prescription dive mask. Utterly useless to almost anyone due to the strength of the prescription. A half used tub of e45 cream also though did catch the culprit for this who declared it had fallen into her bag
 






Rogero

Well-known member
Aug 4, 2010
5,853
Shoreham
There was a true story in the news a few years ago . Apparently an elderly ladies small dog died and she decided to take it to the vets to dispose of it . She had it in a bag whilst on the bus . Someone snatched the bag and ran away with it .
 


bhafc99

Well-known member
Oct 14, 2003
7,543
Dubai
There was a true story in the news a few years ago . Apparently an elderly ladies small dog died and she decided to take it to the vets to dispose of it . She had it in a bag whilst on the bus . Someone snatched the bag and ran away with it .
Could have been worse. It could have been a cat burglar.
 




Guinness Boy

Tofu eating wokerati
Helpful Moderator
NSC Patron
Jul 23, 2003
38,469
Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
Not me, a colleague.
He bought fish and chips for his lunch, scoffed it in his van but had the sudden, overwhelming urge to void his bowels. All he had was the empty chip wrapper so he did the business, wrapped it up and put it in the little paper bag it came in.
He got out of the van to go look for a bin, but was waylaid by a member of the public asking him to go look at his drop-wire. He put the bag on the bonnet and went with the feller.
When he came back, the bag was gone.
There’s taking the piss. And then there’s….
 




tomfitzz

Member
Sep 26, 2022
35
My cousin and I when we were about ten years old in Eastbourne lost his wallet on the Pier. Two weeks later the police called us to say it was found. We collected the wallet and his cash (about £5) was still in the wallet but his Shiny Gabby Agbonlahor Match Attack card had been stolen, he was gutted
 




Gabbafella

Well-known member
Aug 22, 2012
4,999
A cat litter tray.
Later found it down the road when they obviously realised what was in the Amazon box and "dumped" it.
 


Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
9,398
Brighton
Guy broke into my shop thinking I was the off licence next door as my shop wraps around the back of his. All he nicked was the CCTV recorder which was a waste of time as it backs up in the cloud. Police came but of course, nothing further.
 


Jam The Man

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
8,270
South East North Lancing
The quarterlight in my Vauxhall Cavalier was smashed to gain access in the mid 90s.
They took a condom, and a few loose coins.
 




Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee

You can't change fighters
NSC Patron
Jul 25, 2005
10,941
on a pig farm
A few years back I was in Maidstone and had to change the bearings on a washing machine.
Such was the lay out of the kitchen, I had to remove a tumble dryer and a free standing electric cooker in order to give me space to work.
These were left on the driveway just outside the kitchen door as the customer didn't want them in the front room.
Repair finished and appliance on test, I went to get the removed appliances from said driveway and they were nowhere to be seen.
 


Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
22,164
Born In Shoreham
My virginity stolen from me in a hay barn by this rather attractive horse riding lass.
I can still smell the mix of hay and her tight riding jodhpurs.
 


Arthur

Well-known member
Jul 8, 2003
8,822
Buxted Harbour
Our house was burgled many years ago and we had a lot of stuff stolen. The weird thing was I had a lot of old white sport socks that I used to wear under my club socks when playing football and rugby. Most were stained and had holes in the toe. They were stored in a drawer in my bedroom along with a bunch of brand new black socks still in their original packaging. You've guessed it, the thieves took all the white socks but none of the black ones.
They probably used the socks to wrap more valuable smaller items up.

A pal of mine was burgled several years back and was perplexed they had nicked his pillow cases. The old bill informed him it was common practice as the thieves use them as bags to chuck their swag in.
 


Beanstalk

Well-known member
Apr 5, 2017
3,215
London
A limited edition Enter Shikari condom when I was a teenager. Kept it in my wallet after getting it at their album launch gig.

Had the wallet returned to me with all cards, ID, and money left untouched.
 




OzMike

Well-known member
Oct 2, 2006
13,461
Perth Australia
The kick start on a motorcycle I had, I replaced it 3 times and ot got knicked 3 times. I had enough and one night went out with a spanner a knick one myself.
That one stayed on the bike till I sold it, not saying it was the right thing to do, I just got pissed off.
 




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